Why is Ebay threatening to delete my nonexistent account?

[carolinayellowdog]

Hey,

I've never used Ebay, have no interest in it, but today got a threatening email saying that they are going to delete my account and not let me use Ebay again! Making matters worse they tell me not to respond to their GDMF threatening email! I did anyhow and told them to go to hell.

WTF!?! Anyone have a clue?

[GOPisEvil]

1. Scam!

Delete it!

[carolinayellowdog]

8. Here it is--didn't click--will now delete--thanks!

We regret to inform you that your eBay account could be suspended if you don't re-update your account information. To resolve this problems please click here and re-enter your account information. If your problems could not be resolved your account will be suspended for a period of 3-4 days, after this period your account will be terminated.

For the User Agreement, Section 9, we may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. We may also take these actions if we are unable to verify or authenticate any information you provide to us.

Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are prohibited from using eBay in any way. This includes the registering of a new account. Please note that this suspension does not relieve you of your agreed-upon obligation to pay any fees you may owe to eBay.

Regards,Safeharbor Department eBay, Inc
The eBay team.
This is an automatic message. Please do

[Dookus]

2. it's most likely

somebody trying to get you to give away your credit card info. I'd ignore it.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Did they ask for anything?

Your account number or anything like that?

[Texasgal]

4. SPAM!

AKA phishing.... DELETE IT!

[bklyncowgirl]

5. Scam Spam?

There's e-mails going around claiming to be from financial companies trying to get account numbers, passwords, etc. I've gotten bogus e-mails claiming to be from "Citibank" and "PayPal".

Be careful.

[shawcomm]

6. Yep, probably a scam.

A lot of these scam sites will tell you that you need to click on a link and login to correct some 'problem'. The link shows as a valid link to whatever service, but it really directs you to a site to collect your info. The site you are redirected to is set up to look like the actual valid site. Some will even pop up a java window to look like you address bar - it'll pop up to cover up their actual address so that people will think they are logging into the actual service. Nasty.

I've gotten them for Visa as well as ebay. I've turned them into the respective sites security centers.

[Rick Myers]

7. Bad voodoo!!!

phishing, don't respond!!!

[mdmc]

9. [e-mail]

send it there!

[Lisa]

10. they might just be fishing for active e-mail addresses ...

And by "they" I mean someone other than eBay. I have an account there, and the company claims that they don't attempt to get in touch with customers that way. (I imagine that they've been contacted by lots of puzzled or enraged people in the past.)